Kaede

"Thank you Kaede." Jiro says still hugging me and I return the hug.

"No problem Jiro. Anyway I should get our flag back to the ship and we need to get out of here as soon as possible." I say as I make my way over towards the closet window and pry it open. "See you guys later and Chopper don't tell Luffy that the flag got stolen, okay?" I ask Chopper and after I get a conformation nod I jump out the window. Halfway down I teleport myself back to the ship and I blink in surprise to find Franky standing in front of me who was blinking in surprise as well.

"Hey;" I say being the first one to break the silence.

"Hey," Franky slowly replies back. "You're a devil fruit user?" Franky asks.

"You tell anyone and you're a dead man walking." I say glaring at him with a deadly aura.

"I won't tell I swear." Franky says slightly shaking and I nod.

"Okay I'm going to put the flag back then I'm going to take a nap in my room. If you need me for anything just come get me." I say before quickly climbing to the top of the crow's nest and retying the flag back up. I softly land on the deck after jumping from the crow's nest, with no dust cloud this time, before walking below deck and into my room. I grab my blankets from on top of the bed as well as a pillow and throw them underneath the bed before I follow. I make myself comfortable and wrap myself tightly in the blankets before drifting off again.

~~~

Zoro

I turn the corner and spot the door to the flag room with Chopper, Jiro, and Puzzle standing there in front of it looking dazed. They were staring at a window that was open and I walk up to them.

"Where's the flag?" I ask Chopper but he just keeps staring at the window.

"Your friend took it and said something about putting it back on the ship." Jiro said and Chopper suddenly snaps out of his daze.

"THAT IDIOT; THIS IS THE FIFTH FLOOR." Chopper screams before turning around and sprinting down the corridor. I stare at him before running after him along with Jiro and Puzzle. We enter a staircase to find the others are running up the stairs and they stop when they spot us running down them.

"Where's the flag?" Usopp asks as they turn around and race down the stairs with us.

"On the way to the ship hopefully;" Chopper says before picking up his pace.

"What do you mean hopefully?" Sanji asks.

"The idiot decided to go out the window to reach the ship so if he didn't break his legs then he should be on the way to the ship." Chopper says and I start thinking. Let's see we have Chopper, Sanji, Usopp, Robin, and I right here. Nami and Luffy are outside while I have no clue where Franky or Kaede was. Who got the flag back then?

"Well lets head back to the ship then to see if the flag's back." Robin says and we run out of the building to find a huge crater. What the hell happened here? Nami starts running towards us and she's screaming about something bad that's about to happen. We pick up our pace and rush towards the Sunny. I spot the Sunny come into view and I let out a relived sigh when I spot the flag back where it belongs. We skid to a stop at the edge of the ice and Luffy slides to a stop behind us.

"How could you guys let our flag get stolen?" he asks us.

"What do you mean? It's right there." Robin says pointing towards the flag that was blowing in the wind.

"That stupid clone guy tricked me. Sorry for doubting you guys. Let's go." We board the Sunny and all of a sudden Nami starts to freak out.

"Where's Kaede? The volcano's about to explode to; what are we gonna do?" Nami yells.

"If you're looking for Kaede he's in his room sleeping. He was also the one who brought back the flag." Franky whispered making sure Luffy couldn't hear him.

"By the way has anyone figured out how Kaede even got up that wall? It was practically at a ninety degree angle and it was all black ice." Sanji says.

"No clue but he sure is strong." Usopp says and everyone nods in agreement.

~~~

Several Days Later

Kaede

My eyelid twitches as someone pokes my cheek but I ignore it hoping they'll go away when I don't respond. The finger pokes me again causing my eyelid to twitch once more.

"Luffy I don't think Kaede's going to wake up." I hear Sanji call out from the kitchen. "If you have so much energy why don't you go catch some octopus instead?"

"Octopus?" I hear Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp all yell before Sanji starts talking about all the different octopus dishes he can make. I can pretty much hear the three idiots all drooling as Sanji continues to go on.

"Idiots," I mutter looking at the three as they run to the back of the ship to the fish tank opening. Since Chopper and Luffy are devil fruit users Usopp decides to be the one who goes in to get the octopus. I keep my senses trained on him since I have a feeling somethings going to happen to him. I let out a sigh as the octopus gang up on him and have him immobilized in a matter of seconds. I get up from where I was sitting against the railing and make my way to the back of the ship.

"What's going on down there? The water turned all black and I can't see a thing." Chopper says.

"Hey you okay?" Luffy yells.

"Usopp's in trouble you guys. He's in the middle of an octopus sandwich." Nami yells from where Robin and she were in the Aquarium Bar.

"What?" Chopper and Luffy yell at the same time.

"Usopp grab on." Luffy yells throwing his arm into the water.

"Usopp! You're not dead are you?" Chopper yells.

"Answer me." Luffy yells. "It's no good unless the water clears up I don't think I can find him." Luffy says leaning over the hatch and I grab onto his waist when the octopuses' grabs his arm pulling him back.

"Maybe this'll give me a better view." Luffy says but I stop him.

"Just leave this to me," I tell Luffy as I pull off my boots and socks.

"Go get them." Luffy yells and I roll my eyes in annoyance before diving into the pitch black's water.

"Wait how will Kaede find Usopp in that black water?" I hear Chopper ask.

"Don't worry he'll be fine." Luffy says but the water muffles it and I spot Usopp in the water a couple feet in front of me. Usopp spots me and starts waving his arms to try to tell me to be careful but I ignore him. I stop in front of him and one of the octopuses' swims over to me from where it was originally stuck on his arm. I hold my hand out to it and it gently lands on it before swimming around my head. I let out a little chuckle and the octopuses' all dislodge from Usopp. They circle me three times before they go back to where they were hiding before and Usopp stares at me in shock. I roll my eyes at him before grabbing his arm and starting to swim towards the hatch.

"What's the big deal it's just octopus?" Sanji asks walking over as Usopp climbs out.

"Yeah? Why don't you try going down there then?" Usopp yells at Sanji and I roll my eyes before speaking up.

"Do we have enough octopuses Sanji?" I ask and Sanji looks at the amount Usopp caught before he was caught.

"Yeah I'd say we're good." Sanji says and I climb out of the hatch dripping wet. I look down at myself and frown.

"I'm going to go change." I say walking towards my room. I lock my door behind me and slip out of my wet clothes. I create a gust of wind and blow dry myself before placing on a new set of clothes. I walk out onto deck just in time to see a red firework burst into the sky.

"What's going on?" Nami asks and I walk over to the Sunny's railing.

"The booze flew in the air and then it blew up." Chopper says as I close my eyes and send my senses out into the sea around us.

"Looks like a signal flare." Robin says.

"You think that's it?" Nami asks and Zoro starts laughing. Geez I'm trying to concentrate here people.

"Guess the sea god didn't like you messing with his stuff." Zoro says laughing.

"It could just be a prank I suppose, but if it's not." Robin says.

"If it's not?" Usopp and Chopper ask at the same time.

"Perhaps we've alerted someone and they're about to come looking for us." Robin says and I finally finish searching the area without finding anything for miles.

"Ahh, you mean the booze was a lie? No even worse it was a trap and we set it off by opening the barrel. Who knows what kind of horrible people are going to come after us now? Chopper search the area. Make sure we're not being followed. Those awful bounty hunters might be looking for revenge." Usopp says and Chopper grabs binoculars. He climbs onto the Sunny's head before scanning the area.

"I'm looking all over the place but I don't see anyone." Chopper says.

"Nothing here," Usopp calls and I sense the air pressure change slightly.

"Something isn't right, I can feel it." Nami says and I walk over to her.

"I think a storm's coming and a big one at that." I say and Nami nods in agreement.

"Everyone get into position, we're going to escape south by southwest. A huge storm is coming in five minutes." Nami yells going up to the second deck.

"I don't see anything but if you say it is coming I'll take your word for it." Luffy says running towards his position. Since I don't really have a positon I sit down on the main bench with my legs crossed underneath me so they don't get in anyone's way. I watch as everyone gets to work and in no time the storm's upon us. I stare in slight surprise when the ship's paddles come out since it was a feature that I haven't seen yet. We escape the storm to only end up in a thick fog.

"We made it." Nami says sighing.

"Yeah it's nice we got out of the storm and all but where the hell are we? It shouldn't be night yet right so why is it so dark and what's with this fog? It's strange huh?" Zoro says and I speak up.

"Florian Triangle," I say and Nami sighs again.

"Geez I wasn't ready for this." Nami says and I shrug.

"Why? It's just a sea filled with ghost ships, skeletons, ghost, a lonesome talking skeleton, a guy who steals others shadows, zombies, a group of shadow-less people, hollow ghost, and yeah some other stuff." I say shrugging and the group stares at me.

"Let's explore any ghost ships we find." Luffy yells and I slowly walk over to the railing since I can sense one coming up right now that has a local resident. I sit on the railing watching the ship just as the person on the ship starts singing.

"Yohoho, yohohoho, yohohoho," resonates through the air and when the others see the ship they freak out except for Robin.

"It's a ghost ship!" They scream as the ship approaches us and I see everyone tense. I ignore Usopp's stupid antics as I try to spot where the residential skeleton's at.

Author's Note

We're starting off the Thriller Bark Arc now. I give a shout out and a big thanks to  allet_inome102 for giving me an idea for the Thriller Bark Arc.